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... anecdotes to larger concerns about English self-representation and the political authority that it alternately appeased and resisted. Specifically, the essay will follow Angelo from an anecdote he tells about George III at a Royal Academy exhibition, through an account of the constitutional crisis of 1783...

...Janine Barchas; Kristina Straub “Curating Will & Jane” provides an overview of the exhibition, Will & Jane: Shakespeare, Austen, and the Cult of Celebrity , opening at the Folger Shakespeare Library in August 2016. Shakespeare and Austen became literary celebrities roughly 200 years after...

... into reciprocal obligations, pursuing their interests, while recognizing their natural rights. But Farquhar's comedies exhibit a conspicuous distrust of the legal profession, and of contract as a means of ensuring ethical solutions either to domestic or political conflicts. Farquhar's engagements with the law...

...Amanda Strasik In 1811, Pierre‐Paul Prud'hon painted an allegorical portrait of the infant Napoleon II for Empress Marie‐Louise, Napoleon's second wife and the child's mother, that was exhibited publicly at the Paris Salon the following year. Prud'hon's painting is distinctive because it lacks...

... of the tragic-sentimental mode that characterizes a large number of these illustrations. The illustrations will not be discussed in isolation but will be related to how artists at various exhibitions in that period engaged with Falconer's work and made present various aspects of it. In its comprehensive...

... as a transatlantic emigré. In exhibiting the many ways in which a poem might be “owned,” manuscript verse miscellanies invite us to recalibrate the relative values of composition, copying, and adaptation in the practice of literary creativity in the eighteenth century. [email protected] Copyright 2024 by Duke...

... of rational religion. To its followers, Methodism offered a model of spiritual sincerity and moral piety through internal revelations best exhibited through passionate, extemporary preaching. For anti-Methodists, it was crucial to formalize the supposedly organic occurrence of the extempore, thus reducing its...

...Paul Stock Georgians Revealed: Life, Style, and the Making of Modern Britain , an exhibition held at the British Library, 8 November 2013–11 March 2014 . Accompanying book by Goff Moira , Goldfinch John , Limper-Herz Karen , and Peden Helen , with an introduction by Goodrich...

... month. Barchas had been working with a team of programmers and student research assistants at the University of Texas to create an interactive “walk-­through” website that reproduces the experience of visiting a three-­room exhibition of 141 paint- ings by Sir Joshua Reynolds, an exhibit...

... that characterize the official Bunmu portraits in the Likeness and Legacy exhibit. ...

...Figure 10. Thomas Rowlandson, Exhibition Stare Case (ca. 1811), hand-colored etching, 18 ¾ in. × 13 in., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 59.533.573. Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art. ...

... of Derby in Liverpool (New Haven: Yale Univ., 2008). Pp. xii + 216. 204 ills. $75. ISBN 978-0-300-11745-5.1 J This splendid publication and the exhibition it accompanied were planned to coincide with the eight-hundredth anniversary of the charter of the city...

..., including the theatrical stage, the practice of portrait painting, the Royal Academy and other exhibitions, reproductive prints, and graphic satire. McPherson s focus on three key figures the painter Joshua Reynolds (1723 92), and the actors David Garrick (1717 79) and Sarah Siddons (1755 1831...

... article “Reading the Walls: Pictorial Dialogue at the British Royal Academy.” Concentrating on the Royal Academy exhibition of 1784, Hal- lett explores the way paintings, as they faced one another across the room, interacted: “The format of the Royal Academy exhibitions encouraged cer- tain kinds...

... Ronald Paulson The Johns Hopkins University Martin Postle, ed. Johan Zoffany, RA: Society Observed (New Haven: Yale Univ., 2011). Pp. 320. 225 color + 5 b/w ills. $75 J The dust jacket image of the Zoffany catalog for the recent exhibition...

... Modern Love. In May 1765 Bradford adver- tised a sixteen-shilling subscription for four prints to be engraved by J[abez] Goldar, while the pictures were on exhibition as A Love Match at the Free Society, and one of the prints was at the Society of Artists.2...

... (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000). Pp. 264. 200 ills. £55. ISBN 0-7546-0358-x Over the past decade the complex and fruitful interchanges between Britain and Italy by means of the Grand Tour have undergone major reassessments, signalled by exhibitions in London, Philadelphia...